Rajasthan university forces 200 Jammu and Kashmir students to leave hostel

Over 200 Kashmiri students in a private university here were allegedly forced to leave the varsity hostel as the institute did not receive the scholarship amount provided to them by the central government.

The students, however, were allowed to avail the hostel facilities by the university management only after they protested the varsity’s move.

“We (students) came here in 2014 under the prime minister’s scholarship scheme, from Kashmir. There was no issue in the last three years but from this session, the university asked us that we would not be provided the hostel facility because the scholarship amount has not reached them yet,” Arshit Mahmood, a student, said.